Feiyue Intermediate Chinese, a set of two student's textbooks and oneteacher's book, is intended for English-speaking students in college and highschool. Feiyue means to fly forward and serves here as a metaphor for theprogression that will occur in students' Chinese proficiency levels after activelyworking through the meticulously designed exercises and activities in thesetextbooks. These textbooks have the following features:Lead-in pictures for each lesson which highlight their subject matter and thekey words.Each lesson consists of a dialog and a narrative passage in both simplifiedand traditional characters.For each new word, in addition to a pinyin transcription and an Englishexplanation, parts of speech and examples of usage are also provided.Each lesson integrates an array of exercises and activities in listening,speaking, reading, writing, and typing Chinese.Character components are illustrated; explanations of language points aresimple, precise and practical.Pictures and real-life materials accompany the lessons.SDs in MP3 format are provided for all texts and listening exercises.
